The people, animals or other beings that take part in the story's action
What is the characters?
100
An account of someone’s life written by another person.
What is a biography?
100
the problem or struggle
What is the conflict?
100
the perspective of the story
What is point of view?
200
The main character
What is the protagonist?
200
The person that gets in the way of the protagonist
What is the antagonist?
200
The person or character telling the story
What is the narrator?
200
the time and place of a story
What is the setting?
200
A character has a problem deciding what to do in a certain
situation. The struggle or opposing forces are within a person’s
mind.
What is person vs self?
300
When an animal or objects take on human characteristics
What is personification?
300
what's happened in the story
What is plot?
300
When an author uses hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in the story
What is foreshadowing ?
300
the words spoken between two or more characters
What is dialogue?
300
The use of language to create a certain picture in the reader’s
mind of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience; is usually
based on sensory details
What is imagery?
400
The lesson a story teaches
What is a moral?
400
The writer's attitude toward his/her writing?
What is tone?
400
A technique where the writer looks back in the past to give more information about the story
What is a flashback?
400
Everything that happens in the story, including the exciting and mundane events
What is the Story Arc or Actions
400
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory
terms in a brief phrase: jumbo shrimp, tough love, or cruelkindness
What is an oxymoron?
500
Atmosphere of a story
What is mood?
500
One term involves understanding something based on evidence, and something based upon personal feelings.
What is fact and opinion?
500
The message about life that a work of literature conveys
What is the theme?
500
Rounds out or solves and concludes the action
What is resolution?
500
The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its
meaning, as in clang, buzz, and twang